· Private foundation
Solo Deo
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TWIN LAKES CHURCH | $11,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| UNIVERSITY COVENANT CHURCH | $3,000 |
| RAFIKI FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| WORLD VISION | $2,000 |
| UC REGENTS UC DAVIS - ATHLETES IN ACTION | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,700 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $1,500 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE INIATIVE | $1,300 |
| A PRIMALLY PLAYFUL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS - GOLD COUNTRY REGION | $750 |
| YOLO FOOD BANK | $500 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER SACRAMENTO | $500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 34% of Solo Deo’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 56% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 38%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RFRAFIKI FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +27%
- ENEVERY NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +98%
Mercy Ships International6× · 2018–2025 · $15k · revenue +114%
Funded once
- LCLAKESIDE CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $5k
- CHCHILDREN'S HUNGER FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +180%
- MSMISSION SPRINGSone grant, 2020 · $2k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Food for the hungry is a christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that has designed, developed and delivered solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish. (continued on…
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.
Our mission is to connect people to quality giving and volunteer opportunities worldwide. universalgiving is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, whose vision is to create a world where giving and volunteering are a natural part of everyday…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Our mission is to build a movement of global citizens whose actions will help achieve our vision of a world without extreme poverty.
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.
To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including…
For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…
Worldreader is a global tech nonprofit, providing award-winning free-digital reading app, booksmart, to help families prepare young children for learning, by fostering reading routines-a proven formula to build school-readiness and…
Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…
How this is measured
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 47 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds RAFIKI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds A PRIMALLY PLAYFUL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND ↗
- Who funds YOLO COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Greater Sacramento Inc ↗
- Who funds DANNY & RONS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds 3STRANDS GLOBAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BULLDOG CLUB OF AMERICA RESCUE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds COMMUNICARE HEALTH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc ↗
- Who funds YOLO FOOD BANK ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Sacramento Region Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Solo Deo funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Solo Deo. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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